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Ames NASA Research Center, Mountain View, CA discussion

Ames Research Center at Moffit Field, major NASA research center in the heart of Silicon Valley, CA. No space shuttles in evidence, unfortunately; nor can you really get a sense of how truly enormous those shuttle hangers are -- but they purportedly get their own weather formations inside!

Not space shuttle hangars

Those aren't space shuttle hangars. The huge hangar on the left is a 1930s-era US Navy dirigible hangar that housed the USS Macon. The two hangars on the right are 1940s-vintage and housed blimps. Hangar One (the one on the left) was going to be converted to a space and sciences center, but this was put on hold when toxic chemicals were discovered in the paint. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moffett_Field for more information.